a memorable fancy, plate 15

i was in a printing house in hell and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation

in the first chamber was a dragon-man

clearing away the rubbish from a caves moth

within

a number of dragons were hollowing the cave

in the second chamber was a viper folding round the rock and the cave

and others adorning it with gold

silver and precious stones

in the third chamber was an eagle with wings and feathers of air

he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite

around were numbers of eagle like men

who built palaces in the immense cliffs

in the fourth chamber were lions of flaming fire raging around and melting the metals into living fluids

in the fifth chamber were unnam'd forms

which cast the metals into the expanse

there they were receiv'd by men who occupied the sixth chamber

and took the forms of books and were arranged in libraries